Welcome to the Book Ride Podcast. It's a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and

worth talking about in the world of books and reading. We're recording weirdly on the night, eastern time, late afternoon, my time,

Wednesday, April 7th, 2021,

because we're doing a live stream for Bookwright insiders members.

We cannot see if there's anyone here yet. Jen Nor the for Book Write Insider's Members.

We cannot see if there's anyone here yet.

Jen Northington is on the booth, as they say,

helping us out.

I'm Jeff O'Neill, I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky.

We're gonna talk about book stuff as we normally do just in a weird time.

Yeah, that's the plan. It's not late enough here for like an after dark recording.

I'm not having an adult beverage. I don't know what to do with myself.

Oh we have we do have a couple people here hello to Donna and Amelia.

Hey Hey!

Four to five is generally my least productive hour of the day so we'll see how we're doing here I put on my

Black shirt my avi-gui black shirt. It's a it's kind of my go-to here in these sorts of situations

Just gonna be a normal show it's kind of my go to here in these sorts of situations.

Just gonna be a normal show.

It's kind of a slow news week.

I think we're gonna start off the show,

do a little follow-up.

We're gonna do the first segment

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